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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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Hell Hole
191720th century
202 x 252 mm (8 x 9.9 in.)
John Sloan, American, (1871–1951)
- New York City - TGN 7007567 (“New York” preferred, “New York City” display; retained “City” for clarity)
- Northeastern United States - TGN 4011496 (general region): The term typically refers to New England and the northern Atlantic seaboard, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
- satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]
- social satire
- theater (discipline) - Use for the professionally oriented study of theater, involving training, practice, and study in the processes of doing theater. For the academically oriented study of theater, use "drama." [August 1995 descriptor changed, was "theater". April 1993 related term added.]
- plate Dimensions: 202 x 252 mm (8 x 9.9 in.)
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John Sloan, American, (1871–1951) . Hell Hole, 1917. Etching and aquatint on machine-made wove paper. Second of two states. plate : 202 x 252 mm (8 x 9.9 in.). Sheet : 292 x 425 mm (11.5 x 16.7 in.). DAC accession number 1964.14.5. Purchase funds, 1964. (photo: M. Cook) .